10-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- landlubber — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- landmarked — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- latter-day — of a later or following period: latter-day pioneers.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- laundrette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- laurdalite — a type of pale pink or grey syenite
- laverbread — laver seaweed fried as a breakfast food; popular in Wales
- lay reader — a layperson authorized by a bishop to conduct certain parts of a service.
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- lead track — a track connecting a railroad yard or facility with a main line or running track.
- leaderette — (US) a short editorial, or a paragraph in an editorial.
- leaderless — a person or thing that leads.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- leichhardt — Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːtvɪç). 1813–48, Australian explorer, born in Prussia. He disappeared during an attempt to cross Australia from East to West
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- letterhead — a printed heading on stationery, especially one giving the name and address of a business concern, an institution, etc.
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leukoderma — vitiligo.
- leyden jar — a device for storing electric charge, consisting essentially of a glass jar lined inside and outside, for about two-thirds of its height, with tinfoil.
- lie around — sb: lounge idly
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- linearized — Simple past tense and past participle of linearize.
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lizardlike — Reminding of a lizard.
- loadmaster — an aircrew member responsible for the loading and stowage of cargo aboard an aircraft.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- long-eared — (of an animal) having long ears
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.